EPISTROPHY
EPIS'TROPHY, n. [Gr. a return.] A figure, in rhetoric, in which several successive sentences end with the same word or affirmation.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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EPISTYLE
EP'ISTYLE, noun [Gr. a column.]In ancient architecture, a term used by the Greeks for what is now called the architrave, a massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately over t...
EPITAPH
EP'ITAPH, noun [Gr. a sepulcher.]1. An inscription on a monument, in honor or memory of the dead.The epitaphs of the present day are crammed with fulsome compliments never merit...
EPITAPHIAN
EPITAPH'IAN, adjective Pertaining to an epitaph.
EPITHALAMIUM
EPITHALA'MIUMEPITHAL'AMY, noun [Gr. a bed-chamber.] A nuptial song or poem, in praise of the bride and bridegroom, and praying for their prosperity.The forty fifth Psalm is an e...
EPITHALAMY
EPITHAL'AMY, n. [Gr. a bed-chamber.] A nuptial song or poem, in praise of the bride and bridegroom, and praying for their prosperity.The forty fifth Psalm is an epithalamium to ...
EPITHEM
EP'ITHEM, noun [Gr. to place.] In pharmacy, a kind of fomentation or poultice, to be applied externally to strengthen the part.Any external application, or topical medicine. The...
EPITHET
EP'ITHET, noun [Gr. a name added; to place.] An adjective expressing some real quality of the thing to which it is applied, or an attributive expressing some quality ascribed to...
EPITHETIC
EPITHET'IC, adjective Pertaining to an epithet or epithets.1. Abounding with epithets. A style or composition may be too epithetic
EPITHUMETIC
EPITHUMET'ICEPITHUMET'ICAL, adjective [Gr.] Inclined to lust; pertaining to the animal passion.
EPITHUMETICAL
EPITHUMET'ICAL, a. [Gr.] Inclined to lust; pertaining to the animal passion.
EPITOME
EPIT'OMEEPIT'OMIST, noun An epitomizer.
EPITOMIST
EPIT'OMIST, n. An epitomizer.
EPITOMIZE
EPIT'OMIZE, verb transitive To shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to abstract, in a summary, the principal matters of a book; to contract into a narrower compass. Xi...
EPITOMIZED
EPIT'OMIZED, participle passive Abridged; shortened; contracted into a smaller compass, as a book or writing.
EPITOMIZER
EPIT'OMIZER, noun One who abridges; a writer of an epitome.
EPITOMIZING
EPIT'OMIZING, participle present tense Abridging; shortening; making a summary.
EPITOMY
EPIT'OMY, noun [Gr. to cut, a cutting, a section.] An abridgment; a brief summary or abstract of any book or writing; a compendium containing the substance or principal matters ...
EPITRITE
EP'ITRITE, noun [Gr. third.] In prosody, a foot consisting of three long syllables and one short one; as salutantes, concitati, incantare.
EPITROPE
EPIT'ROPEEPIT'ROPY, noun [Gr. to permit.] In rhetoric, concession; a figure by which one thing is granted, with a view to obtain an advantage; as, I admit all this may be true, ...
EPITROPY
EPIT'ROPY, n. [Gr. to permit.] In rhetoric, concession; a figure by which one thing is granted, with a view to obtain an advantage; as, I admit all this may be true, but what is...
EPIZOOTIC
EPIZOOT'IC, adjective [Gr. animal.] In geology, an epithet given to such mountains as contain animal remains in their natural or in a petrified state, or the impressions of anim...
EPIZOOTY
EPIZO'OTY, noun [supra.] A murrain or pestilence among irrational animals.
EPOCH
E'POCH, noun [Latin epocha; Gr. retention, delay, stop, to inhibit; to hold.]1. In chronology, a fixed point of time, from which succeeding years are numbered; a point from whic...
EPODE
EP'ODE, noun [Gr. ode.] In lyric poetry, the third or last part of the ode; that which follows the strophe and antistrophe; the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrop...
EPOPEE
EPOPEE', noun [Gr. a song, to make.] An epic poem. More properly, the history, action or fable, which makes the subject of an epic poem.
EPOS
E'POS, noun [Gr.] An epic poem, or its fable or subject.Epsom salt, the sulphate of magnesia, a cathartic.